<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 November 2012 02:43, R. G. Newbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org" target="_blank">newbury@mandamus.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div class="h5"><br></div></div><div>The should no space between the -p and the mysql password. There must be a space after the -u user bit. And it is clearly confusing to use the generic name of the *database* as the password. <br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Just an FYI, this is not the case for me. I have never had a space between -u or -p<br><br>mysql -urootuser -prootpassword <br><br>.... for example, logs me in fine<br></div></div><br>
Martin<br>